Archive for August, 2012

Its back to school time for many children in North America, so this week Im thinking about people like Mariolette Souffrant, a woman living in a tent city in the Mais Gate neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here she is one morning helping her son Lucien get dressed for school. The four-year old is a student […]

It was one of those interminable hot days in the tropics. Id eaten a big lunch and was sleepy, yet my local hosts were enthusiastic about showing me another six projects before sunset. I bounced around in the Land Cruiser as they drove me to a couple of projects where people were growing and processing […]

Photography is about hard work and persistence, but also a bit of luck. Heres an image from a 2010 assignment in Tamil Nadu, in southern India. I was in the small village of Poonthandalam, photographing some children in a church-sponsored after school tutoring program. It was late in the day, nice light, and interesting subjects. […]

Ive always admired the great portrait photographers, people who could get someone to sit in front of them and then capture an image whichin the same fraction of a secondalso captures some of that persons character, or soul, or personality. A good portrait is more than just a collection of pixels representing the outline and […]